Her songs like 'Armstrong' and 'Boots of Spanish Leather' showed her way with acoustic guitar and storytelling.
If you want to hear her at her most direct, try 'Armstrong'. It's just her and the guitar, telling a story.
She wrote songs that felt lived-in, like 'Armstrong' and 'Boots of Spanish Leather', and other artists covered them. Willie Nelson recorded one of her tunes. That kind of respect from peers says something about the writing.
She moved to Austin in the mid-1970s and signed with MCA in 1982. Over the next decades, she put out albums like 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' and 'Blue Roses from the Moons', working with people like Emmylou Harris along the way.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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